Re: Does the Promise Fastrack work at all?

1999-07-26 Thread Andrew Doane
> I have been trying to follow the Promise Fastrack discussion. It appears > that no-one (Promise) has a driver for the card under Linux. Does this > mean that the card won't work at all or that fine tuning cannot be done > with it? > > I was hoping that the card would have a bios of it's own and

Re: RAID 0+1

1999-07-22 Thread Andrew Doane
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Christopher A. Gantz wrote: > > > Also was wondering what was the status of providing RAID 1 + 0 > > functionality in software for Linux. > > it works just fine: > > [root@moon /root]# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] > read_ah

Re: Still problems with raid linear

1999-07-20 Thread Andrew Doane
> Hi, > > sorry that I bother the experts. I am very new in the RAID business and > tried to setup a large filesysten with three disks (2*18 GB + 1*9 GB SCSI, > Adaptec 2940 AU) by using RAID linear. I used a fresh SuSE 6.1 > distribution (kernel 2.2.5) but built a new 2.2.10 kernel patched wit

Re: Raid woes

1999-03-22 Thread Andrew Doane
> > Hi folks. I'm having a bit of trouble, and was wondering if I could get > some help. > [snip] > # cat /etc/raidtab > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level linear > nr-raid-disks 3 > persistent-superblock 1 [snip] I don't think linear supports persistent

Re: Problem w/19990309-2.0.36

1999-03-15 Thread Andrew Doane
> > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Andrew Doane wrote: > > > The first, I believe is a bug. I had a RAID5 partition set up and > > then decided to re-allocate the disks for a raid0 configuration. > > I successfully created the RAID0 device, created a file system, and > >

Problem w/19990309-2.0.36

1999-03-15 Thread Andrew Doane
Hello all, I'm experiencing two problems and hope that someone might be able to shed some light. This is using 19990309-2.0.36 (and 2.2.3). The first, I believe is a bug. I had a RAID5 partition set up and then decided to re-allocate the disks for a raid0 configuration. I successfully created

Journal fs for linux ?

1999-03-09 Thread Andrew Doane
Not specfically raid, but definitely a related topic- I've been doing a little research on non-ext2 file systems under linux, and have not found anything that is a journaling fs. Does anyone know if this is really the case? I have a file system that is about 80gb, and I'm going to be growing it